The music of tragedy : performance and imagination in Euripidean theater

The music of tragedy : performance and imagination in Euripidean theater / Naomi A. Weiss.

"The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides' allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or...

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Main Author: Weiss, Naomi A., 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Subjects:
Euripides > Criticism and interpretation.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Music, Greek and Roman > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : in search of tragedy's music
  • Words, music, and dance in archaic lyric and classical tragedy
  • Chorus, character, and plot in Electra
  • Musical absence in Troades
  • Musical paradigms and the shaping of narrative in Helen
  • From choreia to monody in Iphigenia in Aulis
  • Conclusion : Euripides' musical innovations.

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